Western philosophy: Enlightenment

'Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' - Peter LinebaughTaking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its lens on a little-studied aspect of Hume's thinking: his understanding of money.

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World.

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade is well-founded.

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems.

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This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant''s lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume's philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume's work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed.

Does perception provide us with direct and unmediated access to the world around us?

Modern philosophy originates during the scientific revolution, and Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how this scientific background influences one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke.

Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.

Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization.

An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion examines Hegel's religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day, specifically the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

Online supplement,"e;Mulsow: Additions to Notes drawn from the 2002 edition of Moderne aus dem Untergrund"e;: full versions of nearly 300 notes that were truncated in the print edition.

Salomo Friedlaender was a prolific German-Jewish philosopher, poet, and satirist.

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First comprehensive account of Kant''s cosmopolitanism, offering a novel interpretation of eighteenth-century and current philosophical discussions.

Goethe als Naturwissenschaftler: eine Rehabilitation!

Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (1740–1821) zählte zu den prägenden Philosophen und Publizisten der europäischen Aufklärung zwischen 1770 und 1800, und zwar sowohl innerhalb weiter Teilbereiche der Universitäts- und Schulphilosophie als auch im Zusammenhang literarischer und popularphilosophischer Diskurse der sich entwickelnden Öffentlichkeit.

In this incisive work, Michelson traces contemporary debates on the doctrine of God back in time to the philosophical critiques of Hume and Kant.

Heldentum ist banal, langweilig.

Wie unsere Gegenwart in einer vielleicht noch nicht abgeschlossenen Zuspitzung zeigt, ist die Struktur des neuzeitlichen Spannungsfeldes zwischen Aufklärung, Wissenschaft und Religion von einer Bewährungsprobe geprägt, die an eine Zerreißprobe grenzt.

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism.

Gewirth's theory of human rights has made a major contribution to philosophy.

Kant, die Instanz der Aufklärung, der Vernunft, der Rationalität, zieht Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller ebenso an, wie die Trockenheit, Systematizität, Rigorosität seines Denkens und Schreibens Widerstand erzeugen – sei dies zu Recht oder zu Unrecht.

The scope and method of logic as we know it today eminently reflect the ground-breaking developments of set theory and the logical foundations of mathematics at the turn of the 20th century.

What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness?

Offers a new interpretation of Johann Gottfried Herder''s political thought, situating his ideas in pan-European Enlightenment debates.

Descartes is widely regarded to be the father of modern philosophy and his Meditations is among the most important philosophical texts ever written.

This book explores and examines the political philosophies of enlightenment women across Europe in the eighteenth century.

Recentwork in political philosophy and the history of ideas presents Spinoza andHegel as the most powerful living alternatives to mainstream Enlightenmentthought.

This book is a collection of 12 new essays on the topic of Kant's account of citizenship, the first book-length text on this topic.

In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on John Rawls, the most important political philosopher of the 20th century.

In den beiden Streitschriften Über Kunst und Wissenschaft (1750) und Über den Ursprung der Ungleichheit unter den Menschen (1755) entwickelt Rousseau den Grundgedanken seiner radikalen Kultur- und Zivilisationskritik.

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume.

A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant''s philosophy.

"Die Sehnsucht nach immerwährendem Frieden ist so alt wie die Menschheit selbst.

Immanuel Kant influenced a large and productive group of political philosophers in the 1790s.

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy-both theoretical and practical-in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.